RE: Follow 4 Follow Desperation: Steal These Steemit Post Titles, I Dare You
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People who are lazy, spammers, selfish or whatever you say will not ever try to work hard, they always want an easy way to earn bucks. Though the topics you have mentioned are kind of unique but still people want to earn quickly and via easy ways, so they are going to ignore your advice.
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Let me share a story, I know a person who is from my country and joined Steemit in June, 2017. I was following him and about 15 or 20 days ago, I saw him upvoting his own comments, he was publishing his own posts too. When I saw his wallet, he had more than 8000 delegated steem power. I checked his account yesterday and now he has not posted for the last 10 days. His upvote worths .53 and he is upvoting his own comments with 100% and upvotes newcomers introductory post with a lower strength. I went to steem.chat and asked in the general channel that is it leagal on steemit. Should we flag him or any step like that. People there said he can do this, it's a free world/economy. So the purpose of telling this story is why we have allowed so many bots who lease steem power. You know whom I am talking about, don't want to mention the name. Even, I have seen some very good accounts who have a delegated steem power of more than 200,000 and their 60 to 70% upvotes go to themseleves. So instead of teaching the people, why shouldn't we stop these services/bots?
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And to be very honest and I am not being negative here, I have seen whales/dolphins being selfish too. They work on their content, work again and work again and never read other's people content. As a red fish, I want big fish not to upvote me but just read my post, leave a comment and suggest me something that can help me grow in this community. You might disagree and you have a right to do so but except for a few ones, peeps here are selfish!
In order to write something, you don't have to have a brilliant mind. You can write what you yourself think and ask yourselves questions like why this happened?
I always used to think about people who have never been successful in their lives, so I decided to share their stories, without even thinking that I'll get money from these posts. Highlighting people who deserve to be highlighted gives me everything I want and will continue doing that.
Too long!
I find it interesting that such a long, time-consuming response gets just a 6-cent upvote, yet a 5 or 6 word response can garner an up-vote of almost $10. Here is someone pouring their heart out into what they see as affecting the platform and suggesting a shift in mindset. I believe @ghulammujtaba is doing EXACTLY what this platform was designed to do (share ideas and stimulate discussion around those ideas), yet there is not a lot of 'gifting' going on to appreciate his/her thoughts and time.
I encourage everyone to examine their own voting attitude and reward those who actually participate in the social part of this platform. Although my vote is worth very little, I will up-vote to show my appreciation of the effort expended on the reply.
Also, to contribute to the discussion above regarding the stopping of the bots: As it currently stands, there are too many people that still believe the bots are helping the minnows (or are grabbing too much of the pie to want it to stop). It will take a while for people to realize that these vote-buying bots are NOT helping the platform and are actually a part of the problem. There are good bots that don't sell votes, so stopping all bots is not the solution either. I believe it is a mindset thing that needs to be shifted and those with the huge SP need to begin using some of that SP to down-vote these vote-selling bots when they see them being used (probably easier to down-vote the people purchasing votes for themselves) which is like voting on your own comments. When the gains are nullified, there will be no more reason to make or use the vote-buying bots and we can get back to the social side of this platform.
That's my 2 cents worth and if you disagree, please explain why. Let's get this conversation going and see what we can do together to make this place the best it can be.
I have upvoted that post you mentioned.....I was on break for the night.....This is the first I have seen of these new comments.
I was looking at post times and did notice all your votes were (at that time) 16 hours ago, so I did think that you were likely finished for the day. I was not pointing at you in particular (I had recently made an article about voting patterns) but rather used the opportunity here to further my quest to change the way people in general use their votes. I have seen that you are in fact one of the generous people who do pass around their 'gifts' of votes and I thank you for that. I hope my use of that example did not make you feel personally attacked. That was not the intention and I apologize if it did. I can see that you are in fact on the same page with most of these ideas and appreciate your efforts in making this issue public. The intent was to have your readers also up-vote the reply. I don't believe it is entirely the responsibility of the author of the article to do all the up-voting. Treating this platform strictly as a business is not going to result in it growing into what it was envisioned as, so that mindset needs to change if we expect it to grow the way it was intended.
Agreed, 100% agreed.
You raised a lot of good points that I mostly agree with. Highlighting others is a good way to be recognized by Steemians.
I like the sentiment, Mujtaba. A business at the end of the day, I think, is business. Businesses do like their own products the most, don't they? They do ask their own employees to buy their products and don't just gift them for free. I believe if we look at it from that angle, delegating power etc. doesn't hurt much the basic plinth of the community. Again, it is a free world and everybody has the right to think differently.